Enabling breakout rooms in webinars
AssigneeZoom Video Communications, Inc.
InventorLin HAN
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Abstract
One example method includes transmitting a message to a first client device indicating a transition to a first sub-meeting of a webinar, the first client device connected to a main meeting of the webinar and associated with a first participant, receiving, from the first client device, a request for access information to join the first sub-meeting; transmitting the access information for the first sub-meeting to the first client device, receiving, from the first client device, a request to join the first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information for the first sub-meeting, and joining the first client device to the first sub-meeting.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- transmitting, by a virtual conference provider to a plurality of client devices connected to a main meeting of a webinar, a message indicating a transition to one or more sub-meetings of the webinar, each message identifying one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- receiving, from at least a subset of the plurality of client devices, requests for access information for a respective one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- in response to authenticating a request, providing, to the corresponding client device, the access information for the respective sub-meeting;
- receiving from a first client device a request to join a first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information;
- and
- joining the first client device to the first sub-meeting.
A system comprising:
- a communications interface;
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- one or more processors communicatively coupled to the communications interface and the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the one or more processors configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to:
- transmit, to a plurality of client devices connected to a main meeting of a webinar, a message indicating a transition to one or more sub-meetings of the webinar, each message identifying one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- receive, from at least a subset of the plurality of client devices, requests for access information for a respective one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- in response to authenticating a request, provide, to the corresponding client device, the access information for the respective sub-meeting;
- receive from a first client device a request to join a first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information;
- and
- join the first client device to the first sub-meeting.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to:
- transmit, to a plurality of client devices connected to a main meeting of a webinar, a message indicating a transition to one or more sub-meetings of the webinar, each message identifying one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- receive, from at least a subset of the plurality of client devices, requests for access information for a respective one of the one or more sub-meetings;
- in response to authenticating a request, provide, to the corresponding client device, the access information for the respective sub-meeting;
- receive from a first client device a request to join a first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information;
- and
- join the first client device to the first sub-meeting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.